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Guidance of Swarms Deployed from Back Shell of the Mars Spacecraft for Distributed Science
Completed
TRL 3 (started at 2, targeting 3)
Description
Provide a guidance algorithm for a swarm of assets deployed from the back shell of the Mars spacecraft, so that:\nDuring descent, the swarm simultaneously measures temperature and pressure profiles over a large volume of the Martian atmosphere \nOn landing, the swarm establishes a very-large (~100km2), distributed network of sensors on the Martian surface for long-term in-situ measurements and observations
Benefits
Assets have low control capability during descent and on landing. Assets have limited communication capability.
Details
| Technology area | Flight Vehicle Systems > Aeroscience > Computational Fluid Dynamics Technologies |
| Program | Center Innovation Fund: JPL CIF (JPL CIF) |
| Lead organization | Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA |
| Start date | 2018-10-01 |
| End date | 2019-09-30 |
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